Joe Rogers: Tattoo? You?

1:09 PM,
Apr. 2, 2013

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I'm always a little puzzled to see a tattoo on anybody who isn't a sailor, rock musician or circus side show performer. Or who isn't male.

And so it was with considerable surprise that I saw a female friend unveil on Facebook images of the Hawaiian Islands and a flower newly meandering across her right rib cage.

I realize this attitude marks me as hopelessly old school, but I come by it honestly. In my impressionable years, the only tattoos around tended to be decades-old, blurry images of anchors, hearts or hula girls on the hairy forearms of guys who probably served in the Pacific during World War ...